A Chieftain of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) and former Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism in Niger State, Hon. Jonathan Vatsa has described the current economic hardship being faced by Nigerians as severe, saying that majority of Nigerians have been stretched to the limit......Read The Full Article>>.....Read The Full Article>>
The former Commissioner stated this in Minna on Thursday when he hosted a number of widows, the elderly and members of the Boys Brigade of Nigeria band, Niger state chapter to a Christmas party in his farm at Gbiko village, a subur of Minna, the state capital.
The former publicity secretary of the APC the state said that it is now obvious that majority of Nigerians could no longer cope with the current biting economic hardship, stressing that the scrambling for food by Nigerians which has resulted in a number of stamped across the country is pointer to the fact that there is serious hunger in the land.
While appealing to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to take a second look at the current economic policy of his administration because only the livings that can enjoy the benefit of any policy, Vatsa said many Nigerians may not survive the current hardship to see the benefit of the ongoing reform.
He nevertheless exonerated the President from the current challenges facing the country, arguing that “even the enemies of the government know very well that President Tinubu inherited a dead country from former President Mohammadu Buhari”.
He pointed out that the greatest undoing of President Tinubu was his refusal to tell Nigerians the kind of country he inherited from the clueless administration of Buhari so that Nigerians will appreciate the efforts he is putting in order to revive the country from emptiness that was handed over to him.
According to him, “everywhere you go in Nigeria today you will see poverty and hardship boldly written of the faces of Nigerians, the situation is very severe, Nigerians are bleeding but we cannot blame this current situation on the present administration. All the progress or successes recorded in this country by both the Military and the civilian governments were all crumbled under Buhari in just eight years.
“The problem is that President Tinubu has refused to open the eight years book of Buhari to let the people know the destruction he caused this country, and that is why Nigerians think that he (Tinubu) is the problem. Buhari ruined the country, the corruption under him was unprecedented and that is the prize Nigeria and Nigerians are paying today”, he added.
Vatsa however maintained that whatever the situation President Tinubu must have inherited from the “visionless Buhari administration” there is the need for him (Tinubu) to take a second look at the current economic policy because Nigerians are starving to death, adding that “no matter how good intention a policy might be, it is only the livings that will benefit from it. Nigerians who are dying of hunger everyday cannot benefit from any policy no matter how good it is”, he submitted.
On his decision to gather widows and the elderly for the Christmas party, Vatsa who is the current special adviser to Governor Umaru Mohammed Bago said that the best way to celebrate the festival is to identify with the needy and the vulnerable in the society, pointing out that “this is what the season is meant for and not to lock yourself in a room with only your family members.
“The widows and the elderly are special group of people in the society, and in a time like this we must remember them no matter how little the gesture might be. In the Holy Bible, it is said that it better to give than to receive. God loves cheerful givers and that is what I am doing today”.
He therefore urged well to do individuals in the country to always remember the poor among them because according him, the current situation calls for sacrifice for each other, insisting that “no rich man can be comfortable in the mist of uncomfortable people. Such individual faces threat if they refused to share
